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TIL that cats can successfully receive blood donations from dogs

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gM4Qy TIL over 80% of the losses by Bernie Madoff's victims were recovered.
LDpr TIL that until the 1770s, Western civilizations considered kangaroos as a mythical beast, with “the head of a deer, standing upright like a man, and hopping like a frog … sometimes with a second head on its stomach.”
5VJ98 TIL: The Nazis never bothered to repeal Germany's Weimar Constitution, which strongly protected personal liberty. Instead, Hitler legally invoked an "emergency" that allowed the government to take any measure it wished to "protect public safety," rendering the constitution effectively powerless.
Brjob TIL There is a "Game of Life" which is a 0 player game requiring only an input of initial state of boxes (on/off) on an infinite 2d grid and the boxes evolve into generations creating beautiful patterns by following 4 simple rules that mimic life
R7o1w TIL how you can tell if two screenwriters wrote the screenplay together or rather rewrote each others. If it says "x&y" it means they wrote it together. However if it's "x and y" it means that they rewrote each others material.